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In Detroit NAACP speech, Biden warns 'unhinged' Trump is looking for 'revenge' in 2024

(Michigan Advance) President Joe Biden told a crowd in Detroit on Sunday night that former President Donald Trump is seeking reelection not to lead the country, but for “revenge.” “Trump isn’t running to lead America. He’s running for revenge. And revenge is no way to lead a country,” Biden said at the Detroit NAACP’s 69th annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. “You can’t build a future on revenge.”

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Biden on Trump's next Supreme Court pick: 'Do you think he'll put anybody who has a brain?'

(The Hill) In a political speech at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner on Sunday, Biden attacked his political rival for appointing justices to the high court who ultimately contributed to decisions he views unfavorably. “He brags about getting Roe v Wade overturned,” Biden said about Trump. “He not only denies reproductive freedom, but worsens the mortality rate for Black moms, who are nearly three times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than a white woman.”

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Trump Floats a 3-Term Presidency

(Political Wire) “Donald Trump on Saturday floated the idea of a third term if he wins in November,” Politico reports. Said Trump: “You know, FDR 16 years — almost 16 years — he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?” “It’s not the first time Trump has mentioned extending his stay in the White House, an idea he suggested while on the campaign trail in 2020. His latest remarks provide more fodder for the Biden campaign, which seized on the comments as it tries to paint Trump as a threat to democracy and institutional norms.”

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Schumer announces Senate to vote this week on previously blocked bipartisan border bill

(CNN) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, attempting to put political pressure on Republicans, announced Sunday that the chamber will vote this week on a long-negotiated bipartisan border bill that Republicans blocked earlier this year. The New York Democrat called the legislation “a tough, serious-minded, and – critically, bipartisan – proposal to secure our border” in a “Dear Colleague” letter.

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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson won't pledge to accept result of 2024 presidential election

(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is not pledging to accept the result of the November presidential election, leaving a door open to objecting to the certification of election results — a scenario that prompted an attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago when former President Donald Trump lost reelection. Johnson told The Cap Times on Saturday he could not answer whether he would accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, calling it an "impossible hypothetical."

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'People are in no mood to mourn': mixed reactions in Tehran after death of President Ebrahim Raisi

(The Guardian) Activists in Iran have said there is little mood to mourn the death of the country’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash near the border with Azerbaijan on Sunday. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, announced a five-day public mourning period after the deaths of Raisi, the foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other passengers on the helicopter. However, Iranians who spoke to the Guardian have refused to lament the death of a man who they say was responsible for hundreds of deaths in his four-decade political career.

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Sen. Marco Rubio won't commit to accepting 2024 election results

(NBC News) Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, widely seen as a potential vice presidential pick for former President Donald Trump, on Sunday refused to say whether he would accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, instead blaming Democrats for sowing doubts about the election. The senator, appearing on NBC News' "Meet the Press," said, "I think you're asking the wrong person.

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Republicans once claimed to be the party of law and order, and are now the party of neither law nor order.

(Signal Press) Members of Congress, lawmakers, standing outside a courtroom where a law breaker is being tried, as the Constitution of the United States requires, demonstrating support of his inability to exercise self-control and for his contempt for the law, are really sending a very clear message that they, too, hold the law in contempt, and resent any attempt to enforce it. They are taking a position that tells the country, loud and clear, that they are not American patriots at all, but that they are standing against the rule of law that their own political party once trumpeted as a campaign theme.

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'He is dangerous': Rep. Balint on the Trumpian threat Speaker Johnson poses to democracy

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